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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE i i i It la a little hnrd sometimes for youth, and even for age, to sec the harm In gambling, The suike adds : zest to the game. ne known he runs ,u risk to lose He plays with his eyes open And if he is Willing to lake chances. who.p business in It but his own ' If the g.ime Is straight and clean. What harnj cm there be in playing for money, especially if one be willing to pay the stukc he loses tor the fun ho ftcta? The lure ia not onlv the excitement of playing for a stake, but the chance of making nulck anil easy money. There Is a delirious ecstacv in monev made without work Th professional g;mller Is a gentleman of leisure. Like the lilies of the field, "lie Io.Ip not, neither does he spin.-' lut lool at his clothes, his s'arf pin. :ind the rlnt: on his third finger. Solomon In all his glory was not arrayed like one of t heKe." There is fun In gamMlng. there Is' money, there Is escape from monotony.1 Then what Is the h i rni ? Are not laWBJ against gamine the legacy of an age of Puritanism" Are not the people who frown on a bet sad souls with a Tl pcr-finsltlv eixerl rfinClrnce " I Without dlSCU Being the moral Issues involved In gambling, there are n few things which should be enough to settle set-tle the question for anybody who I ares i to line up or. the right Bld Nobody is willing to put a gambler, in a position of trust. Let a firm lear.pl that the bookkeeper spends his eve-nlngs eve-nlngs at roulette or poker, and he will Isoon be looking for a new position. Gambling places Integrity under suspicion sus-picion A young man may be capable, energetic. alcrU but If he is . ddlcted to gambling, nobody wants to emplOS him He Is without a market Value He Is on the slag-dump. This is argument argu-ment enough Why should otic de)lb-eratelv de)lb-eratelv make hlms.lf undcsireable ? The chance, however. ;re that if he gambles the "ung man Is not likely like-ly to be either capable, energetic, or alert. Industrious habits roi out under the indulgence of ihe gaming i . . - i The nations that sanction the lottery stagnate. Panama Is a nortorlous example. ex-ample. (ambling Is a scheme to live without with-out work. God lives with the men who fwork. There Is no such thine nj nl decent life apart from the honest toil It was not a curso but a blessing the Maker pronounced when He said. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread:" |